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The elections are crucial for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which aims to retain power in the state, while the Congress hopes for a win after remaining out of power for 27 years in the state. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has also entered the election arena. Prime Minister is on a three-day visit to Gujarat. 

From riding an auto rickshaw to visiting schools and temples, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has taken the ruling BJP head-on in PM Modi's native state, Gujarat, which goes for the assembly polls in three months.

This year AAP chief has made a dozen trips to Gujarat, visited various regions, addressed rallies, offered prayers at temples and held town hall interactions with different communities in a bid to position the AAP as the main challenger of the ruling party that is in power since 1998.

The Bar Council of India has said the country and the Bar have complete faith in Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud, in line to become the next Chief Justice of India, following a complaint of alleged misuse of office against him, and condemned the "deliberate attempt to malign Indian judiciary".

The apex statutory body of lawyers assailed R K Pathan, who claims to be the chief of the so-called 'Supreme Court and High Court Litigant Association', for lodging a complaint with the President of India and others against Chandrachud, the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court, widely tipped to be the 50th CJI when incumbent UU Lalit retires on November 8.

North Korea's recent missile tests were "tactical nuclear" drills personally overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said Monday, adding the launches were a response to US-led joint military exercises in the region. Kim has long wanted to develop tactical nukes -- smaller, lighter weapons designed for battlefield use -- and made it a top priority at a key party congress in January 2021.

The country revised its nuclear laws last month, envisaging a wide array of scenarios in which it could use its nukes, with Kim declaring North Korea an "irreversible" nuclear power -- effectively ending the possibility of denuclearisation talks.

It's the sovereign right of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to decide on the oil production capacities, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said Friday. Refraining from commenting on the controversial decision of OPEC on cutting oil production by two million barrels a day, which has taken the world by surprise, Puri said it is likely to be scrutinized very carefully.

The two Shiv Sena factions – one led by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and the other by his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray – will go head to head in their first electoral contest in the approaching bypoll for the Andheri East assembly segment in Mumbai. But, the Election Commission of India is yet to decide which camp gets the party name as well as the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol, as claimed by both in pleas.

In this fight, Thackeray on Friday said Shinde could not claim the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol as the former party strongman and other MLAs on his side had “voluntarily” quit the party.